It's one command to download and install the snap. How is that more onerous than pulling in hundreds of packages from npm? And having "build cruft" is a featur

It's one command to download and install the snap. How is that more onerous than pulling in hundreds of packages from npm? And having "build cruft" is a feature for most non web devs. It would be trivial to set up a separate repo with all the build tools and configuration, but we want it nearby. There's no tradeoffs here, IMO.